Victim of racist attacks became during his childhood the – today Formula 1 champion – Lewis Hamilton who as he revealed speaking on the “On Purpose” podcast, during his school years, often he received verbal as well as physical abuse from his classmates who pushed him, they were intimidating him but even bananas were thrown at him.
He did not even hesitate to admit that his student years were perhaps the most traumatic and difficult part of his life.
“I was already being bullied at the age of six. In that particular school, I was one of three colored kids and just some bigger, stronger, kids bullied me by pushing me, throwing me down a lot of times.”he described.
Its seven-time champion Formula 1 described a series of racially abusive terms that were attributed to him at school.
“At my school there were six or seven black kids out of 1,200 kids and three of us were outside the principal’s office all the time. I really felt like the system was against me and I was “swimming” against it. There were a lot of things I was repressing inside of me. I didn’t feel like I could go home and tell my parents that these kids kept calling me nigger, or that I was being bullied or beaten up at school today. I didn’t want my dad to think I wasn’t strong.”said her multi-champion F1.
Source: skai.gr
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